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Robert

I live in Greensboro, North Carolina. There, I teach English (mainly composition and Shakespeare) at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. I moonlight as a dungeon master who currently runs two campaigns in the same world. Every weekend, I perform improv comedy at a professional improv club in downtown Greensboro. My top three favorite things are: pie, cats, and sandwiches. If you can somehow combine all three and not hurt the kitties, I’ll be your best friend forever.

The Pixelated Geek Staff Remembers our Favorite Blue Hedgehog!

We’re so excited, we could curl up into a little ball and spin like a razor through the green hills and bucolic countryside.  Or maybe we’ll take a speedy trip through a carnivalesque Vegas.  Or maybe we’ll get so frenzied we’ll attack an evil, ginger scientist bent on destroying the world with his egg ship.

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Chance Meeting in a Tavern (Part I)

Now, we fast-forward sixteen years in the future.  Thom has grown up and has reached the age of manhood in Goliath tradition.  Now he must go on a spiritual quest to appease the Goliath ancients and his tribe father, Thomtham.  However, a few hundred miles south of Thom’s tribe, seven adventure-seekers gather in a tavern,

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Settlement in GeoHotz Case!

“Sony Computer Entertainment America (“SCEA”) and George Hotz (“Hotz”) today announced the settlement of the lawsuit filed by SCEA against Hotz in federal court in San Francisco, California. The parties reached an agreement in principle on March 31, 2011. As part of the settlement, Hotz consented to a permanent injunction,” begins the first few lines

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Robert

Among Giants (Part III)

The following contains the concluding part to chapter three, the penultimate chapter in the Prelude. Following the next chapter, the regular narrative line of the story begins, chronicling many more regular characters (my friends’ PCs) and the events surrounding them during actual gameplay. Thomtham has just roared at his old friend, and Pawluk retracts his

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Among Giants (Part II)

The first part of this chapter chronicles the death of a Goliath seer, an ages-old woman who unfortunately became inhabitated by a nefarious spirit.  Her exorcising death shook Warchief Thomtham’s confidence and made his already awful week even worse.  The next part of the chapter details Thomtham’s conversation with his friend Pawluk, Warchief of the

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D&D Insider Announces New Monster Builder

Just announced today: Wizards of the Coast has uploaded its new Monster Builder for D&D Insider members.  As an avid DM and one who uses the online tools regularly, this comes as a welcome gift.  The tools are always helpful in designing, maintaining, and running adventures.  Furthermore, all the tools are now Mac compatible, so

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Gaming
Robert

Among Giants (Part I)

The ill omens expressed in the previous chapter find their origin sixteen years earlier in the northern goliath tribes of the De Marco Barony. The next chapter of the RPG narrative details the birth and arrival of young Thom, a central figure of the story (played by pixelatedgeek writer Justin in the Sunday night campaigns).

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Events
Robert

Star Wars: The Old Republic First Impressions

If you’ve been following the site for the past few days, you have probably noticed all of the SW: TOR content that we discovered at PAX East. I wanted to give you some quick first impressions of the game.  In short, the game has resurrected my interest in MMOs. I know for sure I will purchase

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Robert

Things to Come (Part III)

Thanks for tuning back in, faithful readers and intrepid adventurers. Now that PAX East 2011 is over, the articles are mostly published, and all the geek dust has settled (momentarily, of course), I return to the regularly scheduled programming of the two-year D&D campaign. Yulin and Tyghe just established the birth of the Baron’s daughter

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